"Glorianna" genre: Alternative General
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	Slow, gospel-driven prostitute rock
	MP3.com CD: Illumination - buy it! CD: Illumination   Label: STOLEN HAT RECORDS Credits: Copyright 2001 - Gentry Bronson
	Story Behind the Song This song comes from an experience I had several years ago when I met a young woman from Minnesota in an old man's bar in San Francisco. It was on a Sunday afternoon when the US Gymnastics championships were on, and I was playing pool with a friend and watching all these old men drinking and watching all these young nubile girls on the screen. That's when "Glorianna" appeared. She offered me sexual favors for $20 just so that she could get out of San Francisco and go to a rehab clinic. I did not take her up on the offer, but I always thought about her and wondered if she made it safely out of town. Lyrics 1 Glorianna lives on Lowell street In alleys, bus stops and doorways Well, she came out West, looking for a new life And instead she found the needle & the glass pipe She gets most of her meals from a Baptist Church And sleeps under bridge out by the racetrack Well, she talks tough and thinks softly "Make me pure like a pearl" Glorianna Chorus When the money's gone Fight for your life When the dam it breaks Fight for your life When the street is cold Fight for your life And when you grow old Fight for your life 2 I met Glorianna when she was nineteen In a Market Street bar on a Sunday She'd been dancing in the streets for three years And dancing in the sheets all of her life She wanted to go North just to get clean Where she'd praise God and count the rosary First she needed twenty bills for one last shot Said, "Can I make you feel like a man?" Glorianna Chorus C section When the sun never rises in your dreams And Kansas looks like somewhere in a magazine When nothing in your life is what you planned Then holding on to the ground is all you have 3 Christmas Eve, 1993 On a Greyhound bus bound for Cold Spring She gonna get it straight, find some gravity She gonna get away from the night and its vanity Well, Glorianna did you make it home To a big white house where you're never alone? And does the daylight shine down on your head Or do you walk the night for your butter and bread? Glorianna Chorus

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